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I never even knew what an SNES was until the '00s. Here on the internet I find kids younger than me going on and on about how good or bad game systems were, and they couldn't have been more than toddlers at the time. When I was a kid, we were outside. Pretending to be dinosaurs or jungle cats, swimming or climbing trees, playing tag or freeze tag or hide and seek all up and down the street. SNES wasn't even in the periphery.

Maybe I missed out on childhood.

Not really. Video games are fun and all, but there are plenty of other awesome things to do whether you are a kid or an adult.

I never even knew what an SNES was until the '00s. Here on the internet I find kids younger than me going on and on about how good or bad game systems were, and they couldn't have been more than toddlers at the time. When I was a kid, we were outside. Pretending to be dinosaurs or jungle cats, swimming or climbing trees, playing tag or freeze tag or hide and seek all up and down the street. SNES wasn't even in the periphery.

I never even knew what an SNES was until the '00s. Here on the internet I find kids younger than me going on and on about how good or bad game systems were, and they couldn't have been more than toddlers at the time. When I was a kid, we were outside. Pretending to be dinosaurs or jungle cats, swimming or climbing trees, playing tag or freeze tag or hide and seek all up and down the street. SNES wasn't even in the periphery.

Maybe I missed out on childhood.

Possibly. I was only a wee lad when the SNES came out, if I was even born at all. A family friend had an NES and I played that relentlessly. I had an SNES and an N64 at about the same time. Yyyyyeah. Anyway, moving on.

Getting texts from the girl who wanted to cheat on her bf with me, and she still wants to. Between the random guy on the street and the person willing to ruin their relationship, not sure if I should feel like a stud or a *****

Hunter X Hunter. Hisoka just killed some guy that he tried to kill last time, and Leorio nearly pushed a blue guy to his death.

You could do so much worse. You really, really have nothing to be ashamed of.

Originally Posted by Darato

Getting texts from the girl who wanted to cheat on her bf with me, and she still wants to. Between the random guy on the street and the person willing to ruin their relationship, not sure if I should feel like a stud or a *****

Getting texts from the girl who wanted to cheat on her bf with me, and she still wants to. Between the random guy on the street and the person willing to ruin their relationship, not sure if I should feel like a stud or a *****

L.F.D.

As you're bragging about it (in the misc section admittedly) on a pokemon forum, and considering the standard of girl in question, I would say a cheap version of the latter.

I remember when television in the 90's looked like television from the 70's.

Originally Posted by Darato

Getting texts from the girl who wanted to cheat on her bf with me, and she still wants to. Between the random guy on the street and the person willing to ruin their relationship, not sure if I should feel like a stud or a *****

L.F.D.

You should go for it.

Fighting for real American turtles everywhere. Pro-Turtle since 6/30/13

It can function that way if you want it to, there are bots that sell cards for event tickets (the game's currency) and you can make decent decks by spending a moderate amount on it. But yeah generally it is a money sink.

That's pretty nice. I may look into it then. I probably won't get started for awhile, given my situation (if everything goes correctly, it may end up being for 4-5 years before I begin, and in that time many things will change). Part of the reason is I don't have the money yet.

Originally Posted by Fenix

I don't know really, if money isn't an issue for you and you want to play MTG online, then MTGO is definitely the best way as the coding of the thing is actually good and it handles thing pretty well. Plus finding games (be it Standard, modern, legacy, block constructed, 2 headed giant, commander, anything goes, ...) is really easy. OH I FORGOT, with the game you also get a vast assortment of cards used in the Duel of the Planeswalker games, which includes stuff like Primeval Titan, Sword of War and Peace and Master of Etherium. The cards are gold bordered though and can be only used against other people using the planeswalker decks, and no one uses those outside the newbie room. ...Which is probably why I forgot they existed.

I already have a few decks that I pre-made online, so I'll hopefully be able to get right into it since I know the cards that I want to get. Then again, that's assuming I can get them.

Originally Posted by Fenix

Either way, if you end up joining maybe we can exchange MTGO handles and have some casual games/trades every now and then?

That would be a lot of fun and I'd love to do that. One of the problems with it though is I plan on joining the IDF soon and I don't know how much time i'll be able to devote to MTG.

Also, not sure if you mentioned this already, but what are the payments like? Can you make an account for free and the money only goes to buying the cards, or do I need to buy an account first? If it's the former, I may get started sooner and just go on hiatus during the years I'm in the army.

Originally Posted by Fenix

Your goblin deck sounds better (definitely more focused) than mine. Mine has a land destruction subtheme as well and tends to fizzle too frequently. Haha my younger brothers plays as well but he's the kind of player that cares a little too much about winning so I don't play with him that often.

My younger brother is also exactly like that. He's getting better about it the older he gets, but sometimes it's just hard to play with him. I never get to use my Sliver deck either. He hates it (and rightfully so - it's a bitch).

Originally Posted by Fenix

As for metalcraft, Galvanic Blast and Dispatch have been the strongest metalcraft cards so far I think. There was a pro deck called Tempered Steel (named after the key enchantment) that played a lot of cheap artifact creatures + glint hawks and swarmed the opponent with lightning fast starts. Dispatch was a key card in that deck.

I figure the next deck I work on will be a Metalcraft deck. What's great about it is it doesn't have to be mono-artifact to be effective. I might end up making one of every color.

Originally Posted by Fenix

Haha yeah when I came back so many things had changed that it confused me, I remember I had someone (interestingly, Swampy, a veteran sppf'er who hasn't shown his face for a while) explain to me how planeswalker worked lol.

Haha. I'm actually still looking into how Planeswalkers work. I've yet to sit down and just figure it out though, since I still kinda object to using them (a little bit of bias, a little bit of me having no idea how they work).

I'm also currently taking part in a two week EMT course, so I'll be a little slow to respond to everything. It's 12 hours a day for two weeks, plus studying during the time that I'm not in class (sounds worse than it really is, but over exaggerating makes me feel better).

Originally Posted by Profesco

I never even knew what an SNES was until the '00s. Here on the internet I find kids younger than me going on and on about how good or bad game systems were, and they couldn't have been more than toddlers at the time. When I was a kid, we were outside. Pretending to be dinosaurs or jungle cats, swimming or climbing trees, playing tag or freeze tag or hide and seek all up and down the street. SNES wasn't even in the periphery.

Maybe I missed out on childhood.

How was walking to school for 10 miles up-hill both ways in 120 degree weather and 5 feet of snow? I hear you old folk did a lot of that.

Although I have to admit that pretending to be cowboys and Indians and climbing trees is one thing I really miss from childhood. The only gaming system I had when I was growing up was a GBC and some digivice, tamigachi-esque thing I stole from my brother.

I never even knew what an SNES was until the '00s. Here on the internet I find kids younger than me going on and on about how good or bad game systems were, and they couldn't have been more than toddlers at the time. When I was a kid, we were outside. Pretending to be dinosaurs or jungle cats, swimming or climbing trees, playing tag or freeze tag or hide and seek all up and down the street. SNES wasn't even in the periphery.

Maybe I missed out on childhood.

Yeah, you missed out. Metriod Prime, Pikmin, and Luigi's Mansion are what I remember from my childhood and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Totally agreed, The Empyrean definitely makes the top 5 favourite albums list for me. Yeah his views are truly fascinating, have you red the rare blog entries he put on Johnfrusciante.com around when that album was being released? I found them to be really interesting, even though I am not a musician and a lot of it was targeted at them.

Also haha yeah that interview, which was made by a dutch channel if I recall correctly, he was in a really sub-human state. It's funny that even in that state he managed to make beautiful music. Even his 2nd solo album which he has admitted he put out for drug money has some real gems in it, despite being generally ****ed up. It is actually another thing I found interesting about this man; the quick rise to fame, the fall to drugs and near self-destruction, his glorious return, his second departure from the band... He has been where few have returned from, and he is not even ashamed or regretful of it. (Admittedly though, he does have a song called "Regret", but since it also contains the line "stay alone" it's probably about something else -- not that you can really be certain given his approach to lyric-writing).

No, I haven't read those blogs, but I'll see if I can't find them when I get a chance.

"Sub-human" is being kinda generous, but yeah, his music from around then was ridiculously soul-filled, even if it's not accessible to most people (I remember I once tried to play "Your Pussy's Glued to a Building on Fire" at my old workplace, and my coworkers would not, uh, have it, to say the least (except for the guy who introduced me to Frusciante, anyway)). I'm actually not that familiar with Smile from the Streets You Hold compared to the rest of his work, except for the title song, which I love. And actually, I remember hearing in another interview that he generally writes his lyrics sort of by mismatching concepts in a way that amuses him, and he mentioned "Regret" specifically -- that it struck him as an anomaly to regret one's past, because your past made you who you are, so it's contradictory to regret it, since it's also regretting the person you are now, or could become. Or something along those lines.

Originally Posted by Cipher

So, I finally got the Facebook Timeline. I still hate it.

BUT--

Apparently it lets you add a photo for "born"? That's hilarious. What am I going to put there? I'm kind of torn between a rejoicing crowd and a huge explosion at this point.

Thanks, guys. I start tomorrow morning. :u Aww yeeaaahhh guaranteed 45+ hours a week. LESS VIDYA, MORE DOSH TO WHOP OUT. Gonna save up my first few checks (HAHA LIKE THAT'LL HAPPEN) and finally get a car/learn to drive...though not in that order.
I went over to a friend's house and he made the best mango + peach + pineapple smoothie in the world. And jb, we also had tacos. Because tacos are, indeed, fabulous.

And Jesus Christ, I completely forgot that you were timed when you went online. Time flies so fast.

why are you guys talking about gamecubes
profesco was talking about snes
my aunts had a snes when i was a tiny kid and a friend had a nes so i got to play them both from the mid 90s, and as a result yoshi's island is one of my favourite games of all time

Is it bad that I wasn't actually aware of what Tales of Symphonia was until I looked it up just now?

Remember all those years you spent accumulating tons of Cool Points in my book? Yeah, you'd better just forget that all ever happened.

Originally Posted by Armorandonomon

And Jesus Christ, I completely forgot that you were timed when you went online. Time flies so fast.

At least there was nothing worth doing.

Originally Posted by moot

why are you guys talking about gamecubes
profesco was talking about snes
my aunts had a snes when i was a tiny kid and a friend had a nes so i got to play them both from the mid 90s, and as a result yoshi's island is one of my favourite games of all time

It's because Profesco is so far behind the times, so you have to update the conversation to keep it almost relevant. If he mentions WWII, start talking about Vietnam. Ancient Greece? Bump it up to Rome. Et cetera.

Oh, and I had an NES and an N64, but never an SNES. I missed out, man.